Trevor Holness is among the thousands of Vancouver residents who cycle to work each day.

He carries his office with him. All 500-plus pounds of it.

Holness operates Stir It Up, a Rasta-themed mobile coffee cart endorsed by music legend Bob Marley’s family, and the city’s first to operate under cycle power.

The eco-friendly business, which offers “old-school” customized specialty coffee and gluten-free snacks, is one of 15 new street food vendors selected to join Vancouver’s growing collection of food trucks this summer.

The new vendors will offer everything from Filipino fusion and kosher Israeli to urban Fijian, Salvadoran and good old mac and cheese.

“It’s a far cry from where we were just a few years ago,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson of the diverse international flavours on offer on Vancouver’s streets since the program launched in 2010.

This year marks the first time the stationary food trucks will be found outside the immediate downtown area. New locations include the Olympic Village SkyTrain station, Abbott Street near Roger’s Arena, Victoria Square and Beach Avenue.

Five of the new vendors will be located together along Hamilton Street outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in a new food truck pod.

Vancouver’s street food vendors were recently ranked third best in North America by Travel and Escape Digital Magazine behind Portland, Oregon, and Austin, Texas.

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